Shamima

Shamima

Shamima Begum, when she was fifteen

Ran away to join the Islamic State.

To Syria she fled from Bethnal Green,

And she married into the Caliphate.

By an ISIS fighter, two children bore

Were killed in the fighting, Shamima said.

Since pregnant with a third, she’s fled the war,

Her husband’s been captured, her friend is dead.

She’s nineteen years old and a refugee,

And it’s been four years since she ran away;

She shrugs at severed heads apparently,

And she wants to come back to the UK.

School kid brainwashed via the internet?

An example of how messed up things get.

If only

If only (an Acrostic)

Gove, goggle-eyed, left Surrey Heath,

Evenett exited waving goodbye,

Truss tumbled out not seen again,

Rudd, red-faced, left Hastings and Rye.

Iain Duncan Smith was instantly fired,

Davis, Drax, Dineage, discharged too,

Offord, Opperman, ostracised,

Fabricant, Fallon got flustered and flew.

Tolhurst, Throup, Thomson, trotted away,

Hinds, Hunt, Henderson, went to Hell,

Ellwood, Elphicke ended their terms,

Theresa May, toppled, tottered and fell.

O’Brien like Osborne, turned tail and fled,

Rees-Mogg snapped and resigned, conflicted,

Inside the House, human beings sit instead,

Every last Tory voted out and evicted,

Showing no remorse for suffering inflicted.

Victims of barbarity

Victims of barbarity (In memory of Stephen Smith)

 

I read a horror story

A man all skin and bone

Due to chemotherapy

Weighing a mere six stone

The-powers-that-be declaring

FIT FOR WORK in spite of pain

Stephen Smith deemed able

Their sanctions

Would remain

 

Looking at his photograph

His face and body bore

A physical resemblance

To prisoners of war

Victims of barbarity

From hell to earth returned

Took their place in history

But was a lesson learned?

 

As for the barbarians

Those beasts of world war two

Are judged by us most harshly

And very rightly too

Yet thinking of the-powers-that-be

I cannot help but see

In light of Stephen’s picture

A similarity